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Interview: ‘Hundreds of Beavers’ Producer Kurt Ravenwood and DP Quinn Hester Talk About the Creation of a Slapstick Sensation
It’s not often that you see a film that immediately feels destined to become a cult classic. But that’s the unavoidable sensation one gets when watching Hundreds of Beavers, an independent pseudo-silent action-comedy overflowing with inventive gags and referencing everything from Buster Keaton to Chuck Jones to The Legend of Zelda. As I said in my glowing review of the film:“In […] More
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Film Review: ‘Infested’ is Determined to Get Under Your Skin
It’s a well-documented phenomenon that every couple of years, the cosmic forces of parallel thought (or greedy one-upsmanship) compel the universe into producing two films of a shockingly similar conceit. Both of Armageddon and Deep Impact took varyingly hysterical looks at the appropriate response to large hunks of rock coming to destroy the Earth. Dante’s Peak and Volcano did much the same for […] More
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Film Review (Sunday Scaries Edition): ‘Abigail’ is a Blood-Soaked Piece of Popcorn Horror
In the dead of night, when most good creatures would be asleep, a little girl practices her ballet routine in an empty theater. She doesn’t look older than 12, yet her movements suggest the skill and dedication of one beyond her years. As it turns out, she’s a lot older than she looks. And though […] More
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Film Review: ‘Hundreds of Beavers’ is a Wildly Entertaining Slapstick Sensation
They say that humor is subjective, and that’s certainly true to an extent. Some like their jokes broad and juvenile, others prefer a more refined and witty approach, and there are infinite shades of gray in between. So keep this in mind when I say that regardless of your personal taste, there is nobody that […] More
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Film Review: ‘Sting’ Will Creep and Crawl Its Way into Your Heart
There are two kinds of people in this world. There are those that will hear the premise of writer/director Kiah Roache-Turner’s Sting, which concerns an alien spider rapidly increasing in size and terrorizing a New York apartment complex, and think that sounds like a good bit of fun. And there are others who will either […] More
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Film Review: ‘Dario Argento Panico’ is a Reverent Snapshot of the Giallo Maestro’s Life and Career
The setup for this documentary about Italian director Dario Argento, one of the most legendary filmmakers to ever work in the horror genre, is undeniably compelling. The structure introduced by Simone Scafidi (who previously helmed a similar biography on director Lucio Fulci in the form of Fulci for fake) is that Argento has been set […] More
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Film Review: ‘Godzilla Minus One’ Sets a New Gold Standard for Giant Monster Mayhem
Ever since making his debut in 1954 (8 years before James Bond, one of the few long-running film franchises with a comparable cultural impact), Godzilla has been THE name in giant monster cinema against which all others are compared. From his fellow stalwarts in Japanese kaiju classics like Gamera, to his closest American competition in […] More
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Sunday Scaries: 31 Days of Halloween (Year Four)
If you’ve been following Awards Radar for any length of time, you may be familiar with my annual #31DaysOfHalloween challenge that’s usually documented on Twitter, our podcast, and of course, in a wrap-up article not unlike the one that you’re reading now. If you’re not familiar with the above, I feel like it’s pretty self-explanatory: […] More
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Film Review: ‘Barbenheimer’ Delivers a Beautifully Existential Double Feature
While I wouldn’t say that overlapping interests are mandatory for a successful long-term relationship, they don’t hurt either. An early sign that my wife and I were going to be a good match was the discovery that she is every bit as crazy as I am when it comes to watching what many would consider […] More
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Film Review: ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Embarks on a Hilarious Fantasy Adventure
If you throw a rock in any American cinema, you’ll probably hit somebody and be forced to leave. But if you were to throw one in such a way that it only landed on the films that are playing there (for the purpose of this already-tortured metaphor), then odds are good it would land on […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Yet Another 31 Days of Halloween
Longtime readers and/or listeners of the Awards Radar podcast will likely know that the spooky season is my absolute favorite time of the year. Even though I’ve been too old for trick-or-treating for a long while now, and am probably too old for most adult-oriented costume parties at this point, that doesn’t stop me from […] More
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Film Review: ‘Alienoid’ is a Sci-Fi/Martial Arts Hybrid with Plenty of Spectacle
After almost two years where the theatrical experience felt more endangered than ever before, this past summer movie season has certainly gone a long way to reinvigorate faith that the act of witnessing exciting spectacle on the big screen was far from done with. After tentpole releases like Dune and especially Spider-Man: No Way Home […] More